@SiaSL, I'm with you. I dodged the Magic Treehouse bullet with the first two kids. They just never got into them. DS6 is making up for it. It's all he wants to read. Luckily, he doesn't have the patience for the first and last chapters -- too repetitive and boring in his words. He lets me skim and read him the mission. Then we start with wherever the treehouse takes them. Like the Rainbow Fairies from hell, this too will pass.